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Understanding reversals of association between cancer screening and race/ethnicityWilliam Rakowski
Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Public Health Program, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21:1450-7. 2012....
Differential response effects of data collection mode in a cancer screening study of unmarried women ages 40-75 years: a randomized trialMelissa A Clark
Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Program in Public Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
BMC Med Res Methodol 8:10. 2008..The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of data collection mode on response to indicators of cancer screenings by unmarried middle-aged and older women...
Prevalence and correlates of repeat mammography among women aged 55-79 in the Year 2000 National Health Interview SurveyWilliam Rakowski
Department of Community Health and The Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Prev Med 39:1-10. 2004..This study examines the prevalence and cross-sectional correlates of repeat mammography, among women aged 55-79, using a 12-month (N = 3,502) and a 24-month interval (N = 3,491)...- Investigating reversals of association for utilization of recent mammography among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Black womenWilliam Rakowski
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Box G S121, 2nd Floor, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Cancer Causes Control 20:1483-95. 2009..This paper investigates the existence of "reversals" of association for recent mammography and describes an analysis strategy for identifying variables that might produce them... - Correlates of mammography in a national analysis compared to results in quintile- and regionally-defined samplesWilliam Rakowski
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Prev Med 42:386-9. 2006..This study investigated the consistency of results about correlates of mammography from a single national-level analysis versus the results from analyses within each of five quintiles of mammography rates and nine Census subdivisions... - Reminder letter, tailored stepped-care, and self-choice comparison for repeat mammographyWilliam Rakowski
Department of Community Health, Box G A4, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Am J Prev Med 25:308-14. 2003..The main benefits of mammography come from regular on-schedule screening. However, few studies have examined interventions to achieve repeat screening... - Perspectives on behavioral and social science research on cancer screeningWilliam Rakowski
Department of Community Health and Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Cancer 101:1118-30. 2004..The other articles in the current supplement presented many more lessons in a variety of areas, and other authors are encouraged to write similar articles that help to identify general themes characterizing cancer screening research... - Prevalence and correlates of recent and repeat mammography among California women ages 55-79William Rakowski
Department of Community Health, Program in Public Health, 121 South Main Street, 2nd Floor, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Cancer Epidemiol 34:168-77. 2010..Two large, population-based state surveys provide the opportunity to investigate repeat and recent mammography prevalence and correlates among California's diverse population... - Reversals of association for Pap, colorectal, and prostate cancer testing among Hispanic and non-Hispanic black women and menWilliam Rakowski
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 20:876-89. 2011..This article investigates the prevalence of such unadjusted-to-adjusted "reversed associations" (RA) for Pap, colorectal, and prostate testing. We also investigate large percent changes (LPC) to the unadjusted ORs... - Smoking status and mammography among women aged 50-75 in the 2002 behavioral risk factor surveillance systemWilliam Rakowski
Department of Community Health, Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Women Health 41:1-21. 2005..Since the late 1980's, data show an association between smoking status and mammography. Women smokers reported 12-15% lower rates than non-smokers. This study investigated whether an association persists in a recent national-level database... - Correlates of repeat and recent mammography for women ages 45 to 75 in the 2002 to 2003 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS 2003)William Rakowski
Department of Community Health, Box G H1, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:2093-101. 2006..It is also important to investigate the similarity of correlates for repeat and recent mammography... - Smoking and cancer screening for women ages 42-75: associations in the 1990-1994 National Health Interview SurveysW Rakowski
Department of Community Health, Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Prev Med 29:487-95. 1999..This report employs more databases than have been used in other analyses that have examined associations between smoking and cancer screening... - Confirmatory analysis of opinions regarding the pros and cons of mammographyW Rakowski
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Health Psychol 16:433-41. 1997..It is recommended that future research examine whether opinions regarding the cons of mammography are more individually specific than the pros... - Screening for breast and cervical cancers: the importance of knowledge and perceived cancer survivabilityD N Pearlman
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Women Health 28:93-112. 1999..Limited knowledge about breast and cervical cancer risk factors and misperceptions about survival from cancer represent two of these barriers... - Determinants of breast cancer screening among inner-city Hispanic women in comparison with other inner-city womenJ P Fulton
Rhode Island Department of Health, Brown University, Providence, USA
Public Health Rep 110:476-82. 1995..Efforts to increase long-term screening for breast cancer in this community should focus on access while paying attention to its unique perceptions of breast cancer... - Factors associated with thorough skin self-examination for the early detection of melanomaR A Martin
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA
J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 21:1074-81. 2007..Regular thorough skin self-examination (TSSE) has potential for detecting melanoma early and reducing melanoma mortality... - Thorough skin examination for the early detection of melanomaM A Weinstock
Dermatoepidemiology Unit, VA Medical Center, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, Providence 02908 4799, USA
Am J Prev Med 17:169-75. 1999..We sought to evaluate the extent to which the general public has their skin examined by themselves, their partners, or health care providers and the frequency of these examinations... - Reliability of assessment and circumstances of performance of thorough skin self-examination for the early detection of melanoma in the Check-It-Out ProjectMartin A Weinstock
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Prev Med 38:761-5. 2004..Thorough skin self-examination (TSSE) has substantial potential to reduce melanoma mortality by early detection... - Comprehensive cancer screening among unmarried women aged 40-75 years: results from the cancer screening project for womenMelissa A Clark
Department of Community Health, Brown University Warren Alpert School of Medicine and Program in Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 18:451-9. 2009..We compared women who partner with women (WPW) or with women and men (WPWM) to women who partner exclusively with men (WPM). We also compared barriers to on-schedule cancer screenings between WPW/WPWM and WPM... - Effect of cost sharing on screening mammography in Medicare health plansAmal N Trivedi
Department of Community Health, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
N Engl J Med 358:375-83. 2008..Policies that increase patients' share of health care expenses decrease the use of discretionary health services but also may reduce the use of important preventive care such as mammography... - Repeat mammography screening among unmarried women with and without a disabilityMelissa A Clark
Departmentsof Community Health, Brown University Warren Alpert School of Medicine and Program in Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Womens Health Issues 19:415-24. 2009.... - Melanoma early detection with thorough skin self-examination: the "Check It Out" randomized trialMartin A Weinstock
Dermatoepidemiology Unit, VA Medical Center Providence, Brown University, 830 Chalkstone Avenue, Providence, RI 02908, USA
Am J Prev Med 32:517-24. 2007..Monthly thorough skin self-examination (TSSE) is an important practice for early melanoma detection that is performed by a small minority of the population... - Body satisfaction effect on thorough skin self-examinationPatricia Markham Risica
Institute for Community Health Promotion, Brown University, Department of Community Health, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:68-72. 2008.... - Repeat mammography: prevalence estimates and considerations for assessmentMelissa A Clark
Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Ann Behav Med 26:201-11. 2003..Although this study involved mammography, similar challenges in assessing prevalence rates can occur with other screening behaviors... - The cancer screening project for women: experiences of women who partner with women and women who partner with menMelissa A Clark
Department of Community Health and Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Women Health 38:19-33. 2003..Further studies are needed to determine if the themes we identified are consistent among larger samples of unmarried women... - The effect of a stage-matched and tailored intervention on repeat mammography(1)Melissa A Clark
Department of Community Health, Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Am J Prev Med 22:1-7. 2002..Each woman in Group 3 received materials based on her stage of adoption for mammography and TTM constructs... - Cancer prevention in primary care: predictors of patient counseling across four risk behaviors over 24 monthsJudith D DePue
Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA
Prev Med 46:252-9. 2008..Rates of preventive counseling remain below national guidelines. We explored physician and patient predictors of preventive counseling across multiple cancer risk behaviors in at-risk primary care patients... - Using small-area estimation to describe county-level disparities in mammographyKaren L Schneider
Department of Community Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 6:A125. 2009..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the extent to which geographic disparities exist in mammography use across counties in the contiguous United States... - Risk perceptions and worry about cancer: does gender make a difference?Amy McQueen
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, University of Texas, School of Public Health, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Health Commun 13:56-79. 2008..Different risk messages and intervention strategies may be needed to influence males' and females' perceived cancer risk and worry. All effect sizes were small, and future prospective research is needed to confirm our findings... - Promoting regular mammography screening I. A systematic assessment of validity in a randomized trialDeborah J Del Junco
Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 6410 Fannin St, LL 125, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 100:333-46. 2008..Most health promotion trials in cancer screening offer limited evidence of external validity. We assessed internal and external validity in a nationwide, population-based trial of an intervention to promote regular mammography screening... - Promoting regular mammography screening II. Results from a randomized controlled trial in US women veteransSally W Vernon
Division of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Houston School of Public Health, 7000 Fannin, Ste 2560, Houston, TX 77030, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 100:347-58. 2008..We conducted a randomized controlled trial of two theory-based interventions in a population-based, nationally representative sample of women veterans... - Traditionality and cancer screening practices among American Indian women in VermontMary K Canales
Department of Nursing, University of Vermont Burlington, Vermont USA
Health Care Women Int 28:155-81. 2007..International implications of the study findings are also addressed... - Colorectal cancer screening among low-income African Americans in East Harlem: a theoretical approach to understanding barriers and promoters to screeningCatalina Lawsin
Department of Oncological Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
J Urban Health 84:32-44. 2007.... - Understanding intention to undergo colonoscopy among intermediate-risk siblings of colorectal cancer patients: a test of a mediational modelSharon Manne
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111, USA
Prev Med 36:71-84. 2003.... - An academic detailing intervention to disseminate physician-delivered smoking cessation counseling: smoking cessation outcomes of the Physicians Counseling Smokers ProjectMichael G Goldstein
Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
Prev Med 36:185-96. 2003..This study's objective was to determine the effect of a community-based academic detailing intervention on the quit rates of a population-based sample of smokers... - Patient beliefs and tamoxifen discontinuance in older women with estrogen receptor--positive breast cancerAliza K Fink
Boston Medical Center, 88 E Newton St, Robinson 2, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Clin Oncol 22:3309-15. 2004..Interventions designed to educate women about the benefits and risks of tamoxifen therapy may help to reduce discontinuance... - Promoting cancer screening: Learning from experienceHelen I Meissner
Applied Cancer Screening Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA
Cancer 101:1107-17. 2004..The application of the lessons from this extensive knowledge base not only should accelerate the uptake of the effective cancer screening tests currently available, but also can guide future directions for research... - Stage-based expert systems to guide a population of primary care patients to quit smoking, eat healthier, prevent skin cancer, and receive regular mammogramsJames O Prochaska
Cancer Prevention Research Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
Prev Med 41:406-16. 2005..This study extended that research to a more representative population of patients from primary care practice and to targeting of four rather than three behaviors... - Validation of scales measuring attitudes and norms related to mammography screening in women veteransJasmin A Tiro
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston, TX, USA
Health Psychol 24:555-66. 2005..These scales may be useful for intervention research... - The future of research that promotes cancer screeningHelen I Meissner
Applied Cancer Screening Research Branch, Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Cancer 101:1251-9. 2004.... - Are there gender differences in colorectal cancer test use prevalence and correlates?Amy McQueen
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, 77030, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:782-91. 2006..Such differences, if confirmed in future studies, may inform the use of gender-specific intervention strategies or messages to increase colorectal cancer test use... - Cancer knowledge and disparities in the information ageK Viswanath
Harvard University School of Public Health and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Health Commun 11:1-17. 2006..Last, the findings in this article suggest that it is necessary to take into account the SES variation within different racial and ethnic groups rather than mask them by treating the groups as one... - Development of a culturally specific instrument for mammography screening: an example with American Indian women in VermontMary K Canales
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
J Nurs Meas 14:99-115. 2006..This article provides one example of how an instrument can be developed within a culturally competent nursing framework... - The distribution and predictive validity of the stages of change for mammography adoption among Canadian womenColleen J Maxwell
Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary and Institute of Health Economics, 3330 Hospital Drive N W, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1
Prev Med 43:171-7. 2006..To examine the predictive validity of the transtheoretical model (TTM) stages of change for mammography participation in Canadian women... - Assessing the transtheoretical model of change constructs for physicians counseling smokersElyse R Park
The Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine, Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital, USA
Ann Behav Med 25:120-6. 2003..Structural equation modeling procedures supported the hypothesized path analysis model in which 3 constructs related to stage of readiness, which in turn related to reported physicians' counseling behavior... - Breast cancer in older women: quality of life and psychosocial adjustment in the 15 months after diagnosisPatricia A Ganz
University of California, School of Medicine and Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, 90095 6900, USA
J Clin Oncol 21:4027-33. 2003..We examined the health-related quality of life (QOL) of a cohort of older women with breast cancer after their diagnosis... - Variations in influenza vaccination among the elderlyStephenie C Lemon
Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Am J Health Behav 28:352-60. 2004..To identify unique, mutually exclusive population segments whose members share characteristics associated with likelihood of influenza vaccination... - Correlates of colorectal cancer screening compliance and stage of adoption among siblings of individuals with early onset colorectal cancerSharon Manne
Division of Population Science, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Psycho Oncology Program, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111, USA
Health Psychol 21:3-15. 2002..Physician and family recommendation were also strong correlates. A similar set of factors was associated with stage of adoption of CRC screening... - Retaining program diversity in undergraduate public health educationVincent Mor
J Public Health Manag Pract 14:3-5. 2008 - Adjuvant tamoxifen prescription in women 65 years and older with primary breast cancerRebecca A Silliman
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, MA, USA
J Clin Oncol 20:2680-8. 2002..We examined patterns of adjuvant tamoxifen discussion and prescription among breast cancer patients age 65 years and older...
Research Grants
- Diverse Screening Histories--Persons, Groups, BehaviorsWilliam Rakowski; Fiscal Year: 2005..Mentored junior investigators will participate in these activities, as they develop their own programs of research. ..
- Understanding Reversed Race/Ethnic Associations with Cancer Screening TestsWilliam Rakowski; Fiscal Year: 2007..Fourth, it uses a consistent set of independent variables across the surveys. Fifth, it will be possible to look for trends over time in the presence of reversals of association for repeat screening. ..
- TRANSDISCIPLINARY CANCER CONTROL RESEARCH TRAINING GRANTWilliam Rakowski; Fiscal Year: 2007....